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Trump Cans Comey Like A Boss
Townhall.com ^ | March 11, 2017 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 05/11/2017 5:14:46 AM PDT by Kaslin

We always knew Donald Trump was brassy, but until he sent half-stepping ex-FBI Director James Comey packing, we didn’t know that his manparts were made of brass. You gotta be hardcore to step up to that sanctimonious tool, that Kasich-With-A-Badge, and cut him off at the knees in the face of the inevitable monsoon of fake news media panic, girlish Democrat howling, and sputtering Menschian Russianoia.

No hesitation. No apologies. When it became inarguable that this pumped up functionary with delusions of omnipotence had finally passed his sell-by date, Trump pulled the trigger. That’s taking charge. That’s leading from the front. That’s regulating. Damn, it’s nice to once again have a chief executive who’s not a simpering femboy.

The pathetic Democrats were caught so utterly off-guard, and were so completely bought-into their spittle-flicking Comey hate, that their 180 from calling for Comey’s head to calling for his restoration will give them mental whiplash. They’ll be in figurative neck braces just like the one their hero Ted Kennedy wore after he left Mary Jo in the pond.

The morning of the day that Trump canned Comey, the Dems were in high dudgeon over Comey’s “correction” of his Senate testimony regarding how many classified emails Huma sent to her overexposed spouse. It was a lot less than what Comey told Congress…under oath…when everyone was watching. No biggie. He “clarified” it afterwards, so it was all good.

When normals give false testimony under oath, we call it “perjury,” and Comey’s former subordinates frog march them into federal prison. But when Comey does it, it’s merely an oopsie and he gets to shrug as the sad trombone blows.

Democrats have a beef about Comey telling Congress – which promptly leaked it – that he was reopening the Clinton investigation right before the election. But he was reopening it, and he assured Congress he’d let it know if he did, and it was a big deal. Hillary had no right to a free pass on the foreseeable consequences of her decision to flout the law. No toilet server, no hacks, no problem – this was all of her doing and no one should blame Comey for that. Nor was it Comey who kept her out of Michigan, Wisconsin, and the parts of Pennsylvania where people cling to their guns and religion.

But his “Free Pass for Hillary” press conference in July was perhaps the most transparently horrific decision by a Justice Department official since Janet Reno decided that she had to burn down the Branch Davidian compound to save its kids. Here’s the thing about Comey – he was arrogant. He was so arrogant that he took for himself the power to ignore the law because he determined, by himself, that if Hillary was treated like every other non-elite citizen the outcome would somehow be wrong. Voters might vote incorrectly if Hillary was held accountable and Comey, in his surpassing benevolent wisdom, could not allow that.

His press conference did incalculable damage to the American People’s faith in the rule of law. But he’s special, and his most-favored-felon treatment of fellow elite alum Hillary and her cadre of crooks was just professional courtesy.

His dedication to higher truth justified Jimmy lying to our faces. Any normal American, but not Hillary, would have been indicted over those classified emails – those of us who actually held security clearances understand that especially well. And that stuff about no prosecutor being able to prove the case? A first-year lawyer with a hangover could prove her U.S. Code violations to a jury of Kardashians with ADD.

Everything Comey said at that press conference after laying out that devastating indictment of Hillary Clinton was a lie. Everything. But he had his higher purpose. He was not bound by the petty rules that constrain lesser men.

It was never Comey’s job to determine whether to prosecute her. He was a cop – well, cops actually do cop things instead of ride a desk and stare lovingly into the mirror, but his role was law enforcement nonetheless. Comey was not a prosecutor. Yet he usurped that job because he felt that only St. Jim had the moral fortitude to see beyond and above our mere mortal laws. It was his obligation – nay, his duty – to ignore the statutes enacted by the People through the Congress and to do what he determined was right, not what the law required, not what his oath compelled, but what he felt good about.

Comey’s actions were not the actions of an officer of a democratic republic, but of an aspiring benign dictator who feels himself unbound by mere mortal laws. And history is replete with the heaps of bodies that lie at the far end of that slippery slope. Such men never stay benign long.

That pompous hack can never be too gone from office. He probably thought he was going to skate too, right up until the minute security showed up with an empty banker’s box to confiscate his access card and walk him out to the sidewalk.

The Democrats are fuming, enraged that President Trump dared to fearlessly exercise the power of every other president and dismiss those who serve at his pleasure whom he no longer finds pleasing. But he rejects the idea that because liberals disapprove, his every action is somehow illegitimate. Trump refuses to accept the narrative that he is The President*, America’s Asterisk-in-Chief.

Not a thing.

Savor this moment. You just lived through history. January 20, 2017, is when Donald Trump took the oath of office. May 9, 2017, is when he became President.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: jamescomey; presidenttrump; schlichter; yourefired
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To: Responsibility2nd

It is.


41 posted on 05/11/2017 6:44:37 AM PDT by sport
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To: ctdonath2

A prime example of the politicization of the FBI, even if Trump benefited
from it. He deserved no respectful firing.


42 posted on 05/11/2017 6:53:13 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: Kaslin

There are no words strong enough to convey how thoroughly sick I am of Democrats and their media fellow travelers, and of the bull crap they dish every day at the expense of the American people and this once great nation. Election defeats don’t stop them or cause them to reconsider their behavior because their media enablers cheer them on every step of the way. Somehow the media has to be turned around, but the question is how. If I was a multi billionaire, the answer would be easy. Buy or do a hostile takeover of one of the three major networks and change the way they handle politics completely. But I’m not wealthy so am limited in what I, as an individual, can do. Sigh.


43 posted on 05/11/2017 7:05:44 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Compromise is NOT a dirty word. It's how human society functions every day.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Patently false. A lie actually. Why are you defending Comey? “

Wondering if we have ourselves a troll?


44 posted on 05/11/2017 7:20:37 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Kaslin
A first-year lawyer with a hangover could prove her (Hillary) U.S. Code violations to a jury of Kardashians with ADD.

I've got nothing. Kurt Schlichter wins the Internet for the day.

The saddest part is that comparing liberals to "a jury of Kardashians with ADD" is the nicest thing you can say about them, and quite possibly an insult to the Kardashians.

45 posted on 05/11/2017 7:42:26 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: Kaslin

“A first-year lawyer with a hangover could prove her U.S. Code violations to a jury of Kardashians with ADD. “

Oh I gotta hang on to this one. LOL


46 posted on 05/11/2017 7:50:25 AM PDT by thatjoeguy (Every law passed is one person forcing their morals on someone else.)
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Finally, a sane explanation of why Trump fired Comey via letter (while he was preoccupied) instead of in person: prevented any chance of him destroying evidence.
https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/862622030226743297


47 posted on 05/11/2017 1:04:10 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: vette6387

Not trolling. Left thinks Comey’s actions tipped the scales, and considering how close the vote actually was in enough precincts it’s a viable (if unprovable) theory.

If the Left hates someone _that_much_, I’m inclined to think he (Comey) did something right. Remember, they wanted Comey fired as much as anyone - the bickering at this point is only over _why_ he was fired, and how.


48 posted on 05/11/2017 1:07:14 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
My son is 30 years old. He has no memory of Ronald Reagan. Isn’t it amazing the US has managed to keep it together with such abysmal leadership of all these years?

That's because American greatness does not come from government. It comes from We the People. Donald Trump will not, cannot, Make American Great Again. No President can; it's not in the job description and not in the power of the office. What the President can and must do is clean off the government-induced crud, get the bloated government out of the way. If he does that, We the People WILL MAGA.

49 posted on 05/11/2017 1:15:01 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: metmom
And NO LEAKS...Comey saw it on live TV...that takes real organizational skill...to get it on prime time TV when Comey takes a break from his presentation half a continent away.

Game Set and Match Trump.

Unexpected and devastating...a Trump signature move.

50 posted on 05/11/2017 2:25:47 PM PDT by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth)
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